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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- With his now deleted Sunday Instagram post, “Who Framed Roger Stone?” Roger Stone appears to be testing federal judge Amy Berman Jackson’s February warning: “I gave you a second chance. This is not baseball, you don’t get a third chance.”

Jackson had issued that warning on Feb. 21, when putting Stone under a gag order after a picture of Jackson, next to a rifle’s crosshairs, was posted on Stone’s Instagram account.

Stone had posted the parody of the “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” movie after Jackson had ordered Stone and his lawyers to explain why they hadn’t informed her earlier about the new introduction and re-release of his re-titled book on Trump’s election and allegations of Russia interference, “The Myth of Russian Collusion: The Inside Story of How Trump Really Won.”

When media reports questioned if Stone’s Sunday Instagram post violated his gag order, he deleted the image. Special Counsel Robert Mueller followed up with a legal filing notifying judge Jackson about the post so she could consider if it violated her gag order.

So far, Jackson has issued an order rebuking Stone for the Instagram post and failing to inform her earlier about the new book introduction and re-release. She could rule further on March 11, by which time she has ordered Stone’s lawyers to produce documents relating to the timing sequence of the books re-release and their previous statements in court about it.

For the second time in just weeks, Stone risks having his $250,000 bond revoked and being sent to jail pending his trial.

Trump’s longtime confidant has long wanted Jackson to recuse herself and have a new judge assigned to his case. That’s not going to happen. There’s no justification for Jackson to be removed. In fact, other judges may have already thrown Stone in jail for having threatened a potential witness, threatening the judge hearing his case, violating the terms of his release on bond and breaching his gag order.

It would be stunning that Stone would further provoke the judge, if we weren’t talking about a Trump and Nixon associate. They all think they can outsmart the system and find out the hard way they no longer can. Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort is about to be sentenced up to 24 years. You would think that would be enough of a wakeup call for Stone since the judge he is provoking is also going to be sentencing him after his likely conviction.